Supreme Court’s Liberals Blast Trump Birthright Citizenship Plan

President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting the longstanding concept of birthright citizenship is probably illegal, the US Supreme Court’s liberal justices indicated during the first oral arguments in any of the numerous lawsuits challenging the Republican’s agenda.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday peppered a government lawyer with questions about the constitutionality of Trump’s order. At the hearing, the Trump administration is asking the court to let the order take effect in some parts of the country while multiple lawsuits proceed.

The order is currently being blocked across the country by three ...